Building ships takes 17 years, and they need to last another 50-a time horizon that would confound most investors.

组建舰队需要17年时间，并且他们还需要保持50年-一个让大多数投资者厌恶的时间范围。

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The king on one of his trips abroad came to Sweden, noticed that there are other countries building ships with more canon.

国王有一次出国去了瑞典，发现其他一些国家,建造船只时装载了很多大炮。

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That is, instead of building cars in manufacturing plants, we can grow wheat, ship it overseas, and have the ships come back with cars.

即，我们可以种植小麦，用船运到海外，再让船载着汽车回来，而不是在工厂里自己造汽车。

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Because the building of ships was, to him, the application of rationality, of reason, thinking, and experimentation, this got him interested in the scientific revolution.

因为造船在他看来,是理性思想的应用,是推理,思考,实验的实际应用,这让他对科学革命有了兴趣

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So far, British yards have specialised in building ships the rest of the world doesn't want.

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At the time the Bureau of Ships, which was in charge of building ships, had a thousand bureaucrats.

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The company's chief executive, Bill Alexander, said the business did have a future in engineering but it was unlikely to involve building ships.

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